GTT Maternity Support Worker

Job summary

We are excited to announce that we have a vacancy available for a Glucose Tolerance Test (GTT) Support worker Band 3 to join the Diabetes/pregnancy team. This is a multidisciplinary team of Midwives and Doctors that work to provide care to women and their babies, this role is essential to the Team.

Job overview

To support the GTT Co-ordinator with the administration of GTT clinics, providing venepuncture, patient information and maintaining stock levels.

Main duties of the job

Main duties and responsibilities of the job

The post-holder will be essential to assisting the Team in providing outpatient care for women requiring glucose tolerance tests in pregnancy.

• To act as first point of contact for the GTT service, always providing high quality customer care.
• To provide the GTT Co-ordinator and Diabetes Midwives with support for the GTT service
• Undertake administrative tasks that underpin the GTT service
• To support with patient venepuncture and care during Glucose tolerance tests
• To facilitate streamlined co-ordination of GTT clinics
• To be flexible and adaptable to change; be able to cover in times of absence
• Work within the diabetes/maternal medicine multi-disciplinary team

All applicants are expected to have undertaken the venepuncture certification or equivalent. Administrative experience not essential but willingness to learn proficiency for duties required.

We expect all our staff to share the values that are important to the Trust; Excellent, Kind, Responsible and Respectful.

Please note: Be aware that due to the high level of interest in this post, we may close the advert early.

About us

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Tooting, South London, is a large teaching hospital and a maternal medicine centre.

With nearly 9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, they are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.

Their main site, St George's Hospital in Tooting - one of the country's principal teaching hospitals - is shared with St George's, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George's Hospital also hosts the St George's, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.

If you wish to work in a diverse community and gain experience from working in a major tertiary referral unit, then there are many opportunities for you within our Maternity Unit